Widget Notes Home Lock Screen vs Notchify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Create and customize widgets for your home screen to display notes and photos. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and set reminders with repeated notifications. Enjoy unlimited widgets and dark mode support.
- Unlimited home screen widgets
- Photo and background color options
- Customizable fonts
- Notes sharing and sorting
- Repeated notification reminders
- Dark mode support
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It's a notes & photos app compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited widgets on the home screen (all sizes supported) - Background settings: photo / background color (gradation) - Font settings: color / size / weight / position - Share / copy / sort notes - Reminders (with repeated notifications) - Dark mode - Free & no additional charge URL scheme: widgetnotes://
Notchify
Create personalized wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad with customizable borders and nine cutout styles. This app is completely free, ad-free, and does not collect your data. An optional upgrade offers additional features and faster exports.
- Customizable borders
- Nine cutout styles
- Home and Lock Screen design
- Supports all iOS 18 devices
- Ad-free experience
- Zero data collection
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Design striking wallpapers for your Home and Lock Screen. Add your own personal touch to your iPhone with a granular customization and many styles to choose from. From Island to Notch (and home button!), Notchify has you covered. Zero ads, zero trackers. Notchify supports every iPhone that's compatible with the latest version of iOS. — The app is entirely supported off of upgrading to Notchify Pro, which unlocks new features along with Unlimited Exports: - Unlimited Exports: no delay between exporting. Export as much as you want and as many times as you want. - Choose a custom app icon with Notch and Island variants and many color options - Customize the app's appearance
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen at none against Notchify's 1. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (113 vs 11). Notchify's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Notchify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen has 113 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's written reviews are positive against 75% of Notchify's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, Notchify every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Notes Home Lock Screen | Notchify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (113 ratings) — better | 4.3 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Gryzle LLC |
Customer experience
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Notchify
In-app purchases
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
Notchify
- Notchify Pro$0.99
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